Unhurried Vision, and in this manner so it reads, from one new year to the next scribing a journal of living (1999) poetically in the moment, a creative endeavor of complex simplicity – as with the last moments of a moth in April’s entry, “The Small Things in Life”: “a tragedy we’re here to eulogize.”

Poetically intriguing throughout, for me these increments of a life living itself culminate with the “Autumn Equinox” –

“Day & night length even

Reporting the worst
The worst occurs.”

Marking the change of tone and season from one poet’s journal to a tender
and ultimately informative tribute to his friend and mentor –

“This year to you, Philip Whalen
falling down the stairs.”

Michael Rothenberg’s Unhurried Vision carries on a courageous form and literary legacy that will be well read for years to come.

About Hammond Guthrie

The artist found his feet in the underground community when he collaborated with a number of luminaries, including Del Close, Philo T. Farnsworth III; son of the inventor of television, 'Hube the Cube' Leslie, Liam O'Gallagher, William Burroughs, John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, and Robert Jasper Grootveld, mentor for the Provos.